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Carla Shapreau holds up and discusses an antique violin from the Salz Collection to a group of middle school students on a field trip

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The secret lives of violins — and the Berkeley scholar who uncovers them

As the curator of UC Berkeley’s Salz Collection of Stringed Instruments, Carla Shapreau traces the rich histories of treasured, centuries-old violins and connects them to the next generation of musicians.

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In new African lit exhibit, stories challenge and enchant

a woman looks at enlarged mounted photos on a gallery wall

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Berkeley Talks: How art allows us to see everyday things anew

A collage of 15 book covers, including The Woman Warrior by Maxine Hong Kingston (on a burgundy background with a large face), A Gesture Life (black-and-white cover), Tripmaster Monkey by Maxine Hong Kingston (image of a bridge), Comfort Woman (a woman's face), Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan (dragons in a style associate with Asian scroll art), Jasmine by Bharati Mukherjee (on a blue background), east goes west (a globe on top of a cubist body, accompanies by Chinese characters), Native Speaker by Chang-Rae Lee (a back-and-white image of an Asian man's face with a childhood photo superimposed), Fifth Chinese Daughter (a fairytale draying on top of a red background), China Men by Maxine Hong Kingston (red text and a dragon), America is in the Heart, No-No Boy (a body, fists covering his face, behind two strands of crossed red barbed wire, Dictee (a black-and-white landscape image), Obasan by Joy Kogawa (an Asian girl with a bowl cut looking through the window), and Dogeaters by Jessica Hagedorn (a romaneqseque sculpture of a woman)

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What counts as ‘Asian American literature,’ anyway?

Hannah Hoffman hands items to Lara Michels of Bancroft Library at St. Hieronymus Press

Iconic Berkeley printmaker’s archive comes to The Bancroft Library

Chris performs pirekua in Michoacán with a music group of five members

‘Always in motion’: New professor studies the flow of music across borders and cultures

A photo of Stephanie Syjuco's installation of

With a 63-by-30 foot art installation, Stephanie Syjuco explores education and activism at BAMPFA

UC Berkeley linguist Gašper Beguš peers through a row of books in a library

Berkeley linguist on time travel, talking to whales and the ‘sacred’ role of libraries

the uc berkeley symphony orchestra performs in Europe while david milnes conducts. it has some motion blur that gives the image a dream-like quality.

Encores and sold-out performances: The UC Berkeley Symphony Orchestra tours Europe

a black-and-white photo of the San Francisco Bay with a sailboat in the distance and rocks on the sandy shore

Photographer Chrissy Huhn documents California’s evolving landscapes

A wall in an art exhibition of replicas of many famous artworks, like van Gogh's Sunflowers and da Vinci's Mona Lisa

Is a second ‘Mona Lisa’ still special? What about the thousandth?

Sarah Gold McBride and Christine Palmer face one another at a desk, smiling at each other, conveying their close friendship

This class traces the evolution of American friendship

A group of seven UC Berkeley scholars stand in front of an art piece during their travel seminar to Senegal

Creative Berkeley scholars traverse the globe to experience international art

‘Biographers heaven’: Ron Chernow spotlights Mark Twain Papers & Project amid funding crisis

Carol Christ and Jeff MacKie-Mason walk down a hall side by side

Carol Christ, UC Berkeley chancellor emerita, appointed Cal Performances board of trustees co-chair

A painting by Chiura Obata called Sunset, Watertower, March 10, 1943, was done in ink, color and mica on paper while he was in an internment camp. It shows a vibrant sunset behind a watertower in a desolate landscape. There are telephone lines in front of the tower and mountains in the far distance.

Legacy of Chiura Obata, artist and former UC Berkeley professor, endures on campus

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